Stacey Kent is an American jazz singer known for a refined, intimate vocal style and an elegant repertoire that includes vocal jazz, standards, bossa nova, chanson française, and contemporary songbook material. YouTube Music identifies her as an American jazz singer from South Orange, New Jersey, and notes that she has been Grammy-nominated and awarded the French Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Her important albums include The Boy Next Door, Breakfast on the Morning Tram, Raconte-moi…, The Changing Lights, Tenderly, I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions, Songs from Other Places, Summer Me, Winter Me, and A Time For Love. Notable songs include “I Wish I Could Go Travelling Again,” “The Ice Hotel,” “Breakfast on the Morning Tram,” “Jardin d’hiver,” “La Javanaise,” “So Many Stars,” “Waters of March,” “What a Wonderful World,” and “The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain.” Deezer and Apple Music list many of these albums and tracks in her catalogue and top songs.
She is known for her clear phrasing, soft swing feel, multilingual repertoire, and long collaboration with saxophonist/composer Jim Tomlinson. A distinctive part of her later work is her collaboration with novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, who wrote lyrics for several songs associated with albums such as Breakfast on the Morning Tram, The Changing Lights, and Songs from Other Places. Her official news page also notes that I Know I Dream: The Orchestral Sessions was certified Gold and that Songs from Other Places won Best Vocal Performance at the 2022 Jazz Music Awards.